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THREATS TO THE ORANGUTANS

A living thing that is affecting the orangutans is us when we cut down the forests that they live in they won’t have any place to live in and they won’t have any food. Fruit makes up 65–90 percent of the orangutan diet.

Most of the orangutan’s habitat has been lost by increasing demand for palm oil and corporations that buy from farms willing to cut down endangered forests. Greenpeace has produced.

Workers on Indonesian palm oil plantations are killing and putting more endangerment on the orangutans.

In Borneo the orangutans are eating the seeding to stay alive but the palm oil is covering the seeding and killing them.

Orangutans wander and eat palm oil seedlings for survival which is killing them because palm oil is bad for their health. Also they use palm oil used for producing chocolate.

If you want to save the orangutans these are some ways you can help
1. Don’t buy palm oil
2. Look in your pantry and see if any palm oil products, if there is don’t buy 3.Ex. GIRL SCOUT COOKIES! Don’t contribute to the killings of these poor animals.

Fruits with sugary or fatty pulp are favored.

Ficus fruits are commonly eaten, because they are easy to harvest and digest. Lowland Dipterocarp forests are preferred by orangutans because of their plentiful fruit. Which are being cut down so they have a loss of food.
The importance of the Orangutans

When the orangutans move through the canopy they bend or break branches, opening up the forest canopy. This allows light to reach the forest floor thus helping seeds to grow and the forest regenerate.

Truly, orangutans are a big part in the working of the rainforest ecosystem. Because of their large size orangutans are able to eat bigger seeds to fruit which other species in their ecosystem aren’t able to get.
The Abiotic Factors
Because the rainforests are located near the equator the seasonal change in temperature stays the same. The rainforest has a very warm and wet climate. The direct light of the sun warms the land and the sea the most then other areas, evaporating the water into the air. As the warm air meets the cold air, condensation occurs. The rainforest receives at least 8 inches of rain each year; some receive much as 200 to 300 inches of rain yearly. And has the average humidity of 77 to 88%. The warm air and lots of rain make it a good climate for growing most trees. Its average temperatures are from 20-34 degrees Celsius. Inside the tropical rainforest, it is cool and dark. The temperatures in the tropics can rise to over 100 degrees F. but it may be 20 degrees cooler within the forest. The rainforest can only exist in a warm climate, the temperatures range of 70 degrees F. to 80 degrees F. There are only two seasons in tropical rain forest. There is the wet season and the dry season.
The Biotic Factors
Orangutans eat both plants and animals, but mostly plants. 65-90% of the orangutans’ diets are fruits. They eat animals or insects such as: termites, crickets, ants, pupae, and other small vertebrate mammals. They eat plants such as: leaves, nuts, flowers, seeds, tree barks, durian fruits and plants, and lots of coarse vegetation and other hundreds of different types of food. The Predators: the pythons, the tigers, the leopards, and the pumas are the predators of orangutans. The python slitter up the trees and sneak behind orangutans and strangle and chock them to death. The tigers, the leopards, and the pumas just kill the orangutans when they catch them.